http://www.otr-site.com/old-time-radio-westerns/the-rias-symphony-what-do-you-know-about-geman-music-during-the-cold-war.html Old Radio Episodes Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:39:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 http://www.otr-site.com/old-time-radio-westerns/the-rias-symphony-what-do-you-know-about-geman-music-during-the-cold-war.html#comment-241 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:21:55 +0000 http://www.otr-site.com/old-time-radio-westerns/the-rias-symphony-what-do-you-know-about-geman-music-during-the-cold-war.html#comment-241 The RIAS made many recordings for DG in the 50s under Ferenc Fricsay of which he was the principal conductor. The orchestra appears to have been founded in 1946, It later changed its name to the German Symphony Orchestra (at a date unknown). The latest recording I have is from 1955. There was also a RIAS Chamber Choir (appears on a recording of Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream Music from 1950). There appears to have been another orchestra conducted by Fricsay, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. The Berlin Phil was on the western side – remember its conductor during the years prior to the reunification of Germany was Karajan, a West German. I have no knowledge of the RIAS being overtly political, though it likely was having regard to its affiliation with a US broadcasting station.

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